Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Cars


Weekly Vocab

 Zone System is a photographic technique for determining optimal film exposure and development, formulated by Ansel Adams and Fred Archer


 Bromoil Process was an early photographic process that was very popular with the Pictorialists during the first half of the twentieth century.


Photo-Secession was an early-20th-century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Top Ten Cal High


Weekly Vocab

Speed Graphic is commonly called the most famous press camera. Although the first Speed Graphic cameras were produced in 1912, production of later versions continued until 1973;[1] with the most significant improvements occurring in 1947 with the introduction of the Pacemaker Speed Graphic (and Pacemaker Crown Graphic, which is one pound lighter but lacks the focal plane shutter). It was standard equipment for many American press photographers until the mid-1960s.

Contax was a camera brand noted for its technical innovation and wide range of Zeiss lenses, known for their high optical quality


Polaroid introduced the Spectra system of cameras in 1986. It was an all-new line of cameras, and had a corresponding new film. Spectra film (called 'Image' outside of North America) is different from 600 integral film in that it has a different image format: a rectangular 9.2 x 7.3cm rather than 600 film's square format.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Weekly Vocab

Exchangeable image file format is a standard that specifies the formats for imagessound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and sound files recorded by digital cameras

TIFF is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general.

geotagged photograph is a photograph which is associated with a geographical location by geotagging. Usually this is done by assigning at least a latitude and longitude to the image, and optionally altitude, compass bearing and other fields may also be included.

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Crime


Weekly Vocab

prime lens is either a photographic lens whose focal length is fixed, as opposed to a zoom lens, or it is the primary lens in a combination lens system.

wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane

 Calypso 35mm film camera was conceived by the marine explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910—1997), designed by Jean de Woutersand manufactured by Atoms in France.

Through-the-lens (TTLmetering is a photographic term describing a feature of cameras capable of measuring light levels in a scene through their taking lenses, as opposed to a separate metering window

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Weekly Vocab

35mm camera still film cameras were developed that took advantage of the 35 mm format and allowed a large number of exposures for each length of film loaded into the camera.

The Bang Bang Club was a label primarily associated with four photographers active within the townships of South Africa between 1990 and 1994, during the transition from the apartheid system to government based on universal suffrage

Zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed focal length

National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous Americans. The museum is housed in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Social Issue

I plan on choosing crime as my social issue.

Weekly Vocab

Freelance is a person who is self-employed and is not committed to a particular employer long-term.

VII- is a photo agency representing 30 photojournalists, known for its focus on conflict photography.

Realism- in the arts may be generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements

Monday, April 7, 2014

Architecture

Weekly Vocab

Bauhaus, was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught


Telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length

Photomicrograph, is a photograph or digital image taken through a microscope or similar device to show a magnified image of an item

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Clone Stamp


Weekly Vocab

Vest Pocket Camera- Pocket camera that was widely used during WW1.

Meniscus Lens- Lens that has two spherical lens

Rapid Rectilinear- is a lens that is symmetrical about its aperture stop with four elements in two groups

Monday, March 24, 2014

Weekly Vocab

Photosensors or photodetectors are sensors of light or other electromagnetic energy.

Infrared (IR) light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light,

 light-emitting diode (LED) is a two-lead semiconductor light source that resembles a basic pn-junction diode, except that an LED also emits light

Thermal Imaging Camera (colloquially known as a TIC) is a type of thermographic camera used in firefighting.

Friday, March 21, 2014

Weekly Vocab

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view.

Colour banding is a problem of inaccurate colour presentation in computer graphics

Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images